RefNo | PT/73/12/16 |
Level | Item |
Title | Drawings, sections through axis and telescope by [T Bradley] |
Date | [1826] |
Description | Plate 18, figures 8-9 showing sections through the transverse axis of South's transit and a section through the axis of the telescope itself. Inscribed with publication, plate details, and a scale. The published version of this plate is in portrait orientation, with figure 8 above figure 9. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso.
Subject: Astronomy
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the discordances between the sun's observed and computed right ascensions, as determined at the Blackman-street Observatory, in the years 1821 and 1822; with experiments to show that they did not originate in instrumental derangement. Also a description of the seven-feet transit with which the observations were procured, and upon which the experiments were made' by James South.
Read to the Royal Society on 8 June 1826. |
Extent | 1p |
Format | Drawing |
PhysicalDescription | Ink and ink wash on paper |
Dimensions | 328x230mm |
Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1826.0032 |
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0300 |
RelatedRecord | PT/18/14 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA7104 | South; Sir; James (1785 - 1867) | 1785 - 1867 |